Vending-machine.



No". 829,514. PATENTBDAUG.2a,19oe.

R. J. DICKIB.

VBNDING MACHINE.

APPLIUATION FILED 00T.19. 1905.

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UNITED sfrnfras `ll/fk'llilhlT OFFICE.

ROBERT JAMES, lilfiiili, OF WAELLNGTUN, NW ZEALAND.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Aug. 28, 1906.

Application led 0ct0hel"19,1905. Serial No. 283.487.

vented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and ex-act description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relatif-s to a machine or device for automatically delivering postagestamps, tickets, or like articles of uniform size and valu(` in return for coins deposited, commonly called "vending-machines, and to-certain improvements in such machines, as hereinafter described, and illustrated by drawings that form a partof this specification.

My 1m rovements consist in a sliding Wicket be ind which coins can be inserted, the opening movement of which supplies a relay force required for the machines action in a peculiar tortuous passage for the coins that prevents their abstractlon through thev wicket, in a rotary delivering disk or wheel the periphery of which is Virovided with pins at spaced distances corresponding to erforations in a strip or ribbon composed o postagc-stamps, tickets, or the like that are moved forward and presented one at a time, also consists in devices for esca ement of and locking the rotary disk at eac delivery and in other features that will be more fully explained by lhe aid of the drawings.

The objects of my invention alre to avoid the expense, care, and uncertainty of personally dispensing stamps and the like, to preserve an accurate record of the amounts sold, and to provide a convenient means whereby the public can procure stamps tickets of admission or transportation, an the like at once and by thenl own act.

To these ends l provide a machine or structure as shown in the accompanying drawings, Fi ure I being :i front view of a vendinginac line made according to my invention; Fiv. l1, a vmlical section ou the line x in Fig. 1;?Fi line w in Fig. on the line y in Fig. i.

In the sale of postage-stam )s and other sin all articles of uniform'size an( value a personal venders duties are ].icrlunctory, liable to error, and necessarily consume a great deal of time that is lost by purchasers await- -iig their turn. The sales are confined to pare. Il l, a vertical section on the Fig. lV, n. transverse section ticular hours and to inclosed places not alwa 's accessible to the public. These mpei iments are removed by my invention, the operating parts of which I will now proceed to describe with the aid of the drawings.

1 is a containing-case provided with a door 2` ofconvenient size at one side, giving free access to the interior and the mechanism therein.

At the front is an upward-sliding wicket 3 and behind this a passage for coins, and at 4v on the right is an indented delivery-passage throu h which stamps or tickets 5 are pro` trude The main operating elements of the ma chine are of a simple nature and include a suitable receptacle 7 to hold a coil 6 of stamps or tickets arranged in ribbon form with equal spaced characters and perforations 8, as shown in Fig. IV, a delivery disk or Wheel 9, provided with a series of projecting spurs 10, that register with and enter the perforations 8 in the ribbon 5. An im eling-quadrant 12 is raised by the sli ing wicket 3, the sliding late 21 connectin thereto, and is depressedJ by a weight 13. .E pawl 14 on the quadrant 12 engages the pins. 11 in the wheel 9 and turns the hitter a predetermined distance each time the wicket 3 is raised and a coin is depositedv A detcnt de' vice 17 acts as an escapement for the il -lever 15, the pinion 16, and wheel 9. A ight lever 18, attached to devicel 17'.y is depressed at 20 by a coin descending the spiral passage 26. (Shown inFig. IV and indicated by doti` ed lines in Fig. I.)

` The operation of'these devices is as follows, given in sequence as nearly as ossible: The wicket 3 is raised by means of a iiandle 23, exposing the aperture for inserting a coin or token and drawing upward at the same time the quadrant 12 and the weight 13 by means ofthe sliding plate 21, that has at the bottom an extension 24, passing under the pin"25 in the quadrant 12 to raise the latter. When the Wicket 3 is raised, n. coin is inserted flat,- wise behind it and rolls laterally on the inclined surface (indicated by dotted lines at 22 in Fig. I) and falls down the spiral passage 26 when the Wicket 3 is entirely 'closed and strikes at 20 with its edge on the end of the light lever 18, de rcssing that and raising the weight 19. lhis movement of the lever 18 turns the dotant-disk 17 until the pin 27 releases the fly-lever 15, so this latter and the pinion 16 and spindle 28 make nearly one revolution and the fly-lever 15 is arrested by the pin 29, When the lever 18 is freed from the falling coin at 20, it rises by action of the weight 19, releases the lever from the pin 29,I and ermits it to move to the in 27, as 5 seen in ig. III, making one ,eonip ete revolution. Tie inion 16 meshes into a wheel "sistanee, (shown at 34 in Fig. IIJ ronsisting` of a spring 33, that bears lightly on he face zo of the ribbon 5, causing seme teni* i at 35.

The motions that result from the falling of the coin being sudden and the inertia of the coil 6 of the ribbon 5 olleriiig resistance to the sudden motion of the wheel Q, I provide a 2 pivoted lever 37, depressed by the c uadrant l2, to which the lever is attached., rhen the wicket 3 and the slide-plate 21 are raised, Y this lever 37 depresses the ribbon 5, as indicated by dotted lines at 38 in Figs I I and III, o thus uinisliinfv slack for the next movement tothe next spate of the wheel 9.

It will be understood that the form and purpose of the ribbon 5 and the perforations therein, also the forni of the wheel .fl and the kind ofcoiiis or tokens required to operate the machine, can be modified to suit the eiri eiinistaiiees of use without departing from my invention. i

Having thus described the nature and ob- 4o jects of my invention, what I elaim as new,

and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is*- 1 In an automatic vending-machine, a casing, a series of stamps arranged consecutively in a rolled stri having s aeed perforations 4 5 therein, a revo uble wheel aving spaced projeetions on its periphery to engage said perforations, a weightv to eriodieally operate said wheel, a sliding `han -operated wicket to raise the weight to operative position, and a the wheel 9 are fastened on ength of one stamp or ticket, and the i slotted easing, a rolled strip tripping device to set the Wheel in motion, whereby a stamp is projected from the roll.l substantially as specified.

2. In an automatic vending-i'naeliine, a easing, a rolled strip of stamps, having spacrd perfoiations tl'ierein, a revoluble wheel having spaced projections thereon corresponding4 to said spaced pei'lorations, a weight to operate said wheel, a sliding wicket to raise said weight, a pivoted deteiit-lever geared to said.

Wheel to control its revolutions, and. a tripping-lever to engage said detent-lever and disengage it when operated by a suitable applied force, substantially as specified.

3. In an autoiiniiie veni'ling-niarhine, a easing, a rolled strip of stamps, having spared perforations therein, ii revoluhle wheel having spaeed projections thereon to engage said perforations. :i weighted quadrant to operate said wheel, a awl attached to said quadrant to engage an( niove the wheel in one direction periodically, a sliding wicket to engage and lift said weight, a piroted deteiit-lever to control the movements of said wheel, geared to the latter, a piyoted eseapement to engage and disen age said detont-lever, and a light balanced ever controlling said eseapeinent,

substantially specified.

4. In an autoinatie vending-machine, a

of stamps therein, a slidingr wieket, means or projecting said stamps one at a time through the slot in the easing, connected With said sliding wicket, to be set for action on the raising of the latter, a revoluble pivoted detent lever eyntrolliiig said projecting devine, a pivoted eseapeiiient alternately engaging and disen raging said detent-lever, and a light balance lever connested with said eseapeineiit, hold ing the detent-lever ont of operation normally but releasing the saine when depressed by a suitable applied foree. substantially as speeified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence 'of two subscribin witnesses.

R )BERT JAMES DICKIE.

VVi'tneSSeS:

ALFRED A. ENQUis'r, ELMER Wioims. 

